Warehouse Operations Apprentice
MURRAY PLATE GROUP LIMITED
Sheffield (S6 1HP)
Closes in 27 days (Tuesday 7 July 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 10 June 2026
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Summary
Murray Plate are one of the UK’s largest steel plate stockholders, with a wide selection of steel grades in stock. The product range is backed by an established sales office network and logistical set-up that ensures swift delivery anywhere in the UK and to export customers.
- Wage
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£16,640 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Supply chain warehouse operative (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 8.00am - 4.30pm, with a 30 minute unpaid lunch break.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 13 July 2026
- Duration
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1 year 3 months
- Positions available
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2
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
Day-to-day activities will include, but are not limited, to the following:
- Picking plate orders
- Cutting plate by flame cut pod
- Operating overhead cranes
- Unloading/Loading trailers
- General warehousing
- Diligence with all warehouse paperwork
- Inputting warehouse production data
- Stock checking
- Driving a forklift truck/side loader/HGV Shunter
- Following and maintaining health & safety procedures and teamwork, problem solving and attention to detail
Where you'll work
Herries Road
Sheffield
S6 1HP
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
INTEC BUSINESS COLLEGES LIMITED
Training course
Supply chain warehouse operative (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Conduct risk assessments within the working environment.
- Apply safe working practices in line with associated health and safety legislation and company policy.
- Receive products in line with organisational procedures.
- Store and pick products in line with organisational procedures.
- Dispatch products in line with organisational procedures.
- Decant, pack products in line with organisational procedures.
- Communicate with others verbally, for example internal and external customers, colleagues, and managers.
- Communicate in writing with others, for example internal and external customers, colleagues and managers.
- Load and unload products, considering the product that is to be moved and its current and planned destination.
- Use tools and equipment to aid in product handling.
- Use information technology and digital systems. Comply with GDPR and cyber security.
- Locate and use operational information, electronic or paper based, required to fulfil contractual requirements.
- Select, prepare, and use packaging materials that reduce waste and mitigate environmental impacts.
- support under instruction scheduled and unscheduled stock taking activities relevant to the organisation and product.
- Identify and escalate problems beyond own responsibility.
- Follow procedures in line with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Follow equity, diversity and inclusion rules.
- Carry out and record learning and development activities.
- Conducts handover activities.
- Conduct risk assessments within the working environment.
- Apply safe working practices in line with associated health and safety legislation and company policy.
- Receive products in line with organisational procedures.
- Store and pick products in line with organisational procedures.
- Dispatch products in line with organisational procedures.
- Decant, pack products in line with organisational procedures.
- Communicate with others verbally, for example internal and external customers, colleagues, and managers.
- Communicate in writing with others, for example internal and external customers, colleagues and managers.
- Load and unload products, considering the product that is to be moved and its current and planned destination.
- Use tools and equipment to aid in product handling.
- Use information technology and digital systems. Comply with GDPR and cyber security.
- Locate and use operational information, electronic or paper based, required to fulfil contractual requirements.
- Select, prepare, and use packaging materials that reduce waste and mitigate environmental impacts.
- support under instruction scheduled and unscheduled stock taking activities relevant to the organisation and product.
- Identify and escalate problems beyond own responsibility.
- Follow procedures in line with environmental and sustainability regulations, standards, and guidance. Segregate resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Follow equity, diversity and inclusion rules.
- Carry out and record learning and development activities.
- Conducts handover activities.
Training schedule
The apprenticeship will be delivered with a blend of online & onsite meetings with their assessor every 4 - 6 weeks until completion of the apprenticeship
More training information
Candidates must be aged 18 or above to comply with Health & Safety Regulations, as machinery will need to be used
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 9-4 (A*-C))
- Maths (grade 9-4 (A*-C))
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Technical Skills
- Ability to communicate well
- Able to work within a team
- Able to work on own initiative
- Adapt to different levels
- Organised
- Good time keeping
- Hard working & enthusiastic
- Willing to learn
- Good communication skills
- Enjoys physical work
Other requirements
- Full training will be given to gain the technical skills to fulfil the role
- Warehouse work can be physically demanding
- Unheated warehouse
About this employer
Murray Steel Products are specialist suppliers of steel plate and profile, and structural steel with a history that dates back over 70 years.
Having grown from our beginnings as a steel stockholding business, and now encompassing well-established brands such as Northern Steel Stocks, Forth Steel, Murray Energy and Tipton & Mill Steels, along with extensive history with Austins, Trumanns Steel and Chilko Products, Murray are one of the most trusted names in the UK metals supply industry.
After this apprenticeship
- Progression could be within warehousing or other parts of the group, such as admin or sales
- Opportunity to progress to a higher-level qualification
- Several members of staff are due to retire in the coming years, which will create new opportunities
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
INTEC BUSINESS COLLEGES LIMITED
Tracey North
tracey.north@intecbusinesscolleges.co.uk
07580 997408
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000036180.
Apply now
Closes in 27 days (Tuesday 7 July 2026 at 11:59pm)